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“Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding” (Proverbs 23:23)TABLE OF CONTENTS

“THROUGH THE YEARS the best answer to many liberal views of the Bible has been the discoveries of the excavators in Bible lands. This book is designed to be a textbook for students of Bible archaeology, and is, therefore, fully documented with numerous reference notes. It is hoped that ministers, Sunday school teachers, Christian workers, and Christians in general will find it to be a practical source book of helpful material to explain Scripture and to defend it against destructive critics.

We do not attempt to report on every archaeological expedition in Bible lands, or to tell about all the finds that have bearing on the Bible. To do so would be to produce a volume too large to be practical. But a sincere effort has been made to write about those discoveries which are of most value to the Bible-believing student.

We send this book forth with a prayer that it may serve to ground young people and adults in the Word of God that liveth and abideth forever.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author wishes to express his appreciation to the following publishers and writers for permission in writing to quote from their copyrighted publications. Acknowledgment of the author quoted, name of book, publisher, and page from which the quotation is taken, are all given in the text of the book.

The University of Chicago Press, for material reprinted from Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, by Daniel D. Luckenbill, two volumes, copyrighted 1926, 1927, by University of Chicago.

Dr. W. F. Albright, and the American Schools of Oriental Research of Jerusalem and Baghdad, for quotations from Prof. Albright in: The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, and also in: The Biblical Archaeologist.

Dr. John Garstang, and Marshall, Morgan & Scott, Ltd., of London, for quotation from: The Story of Jericho, by Professor Garstang, copyright, 1940.

Stephen L. Caiger, and Cassell & Company, Ltd., of London, for quotations from: Archaeology and the New Testament, by Canon Caiger, copyright, 1939.